Tony Hudson and Fxvet Studio

Visual Effects and Art Direction Services

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    Big Boom

    "The Prankster" 2009

    Background is a matte painting based on San Rafael High School, but I moved Mt. Tam, added more buildings, and changed the compostion of the school as well as adding night sky. Exploding lights created in Particle Illusion.
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    Floating Castle

    Concept Art

    Concept art created for an unproduced video game
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    "Looks Could Kill"

    Music 4 Animals video

    greenscreen shot on the Red One, digital balloons, etc
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    Chrysler

    "Artificial Intelligence" 2001

    Digital Model Supervisor; bldg by Jack Haye, ice by Mila Golynskaia
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    Jeebs

    "Men In Black" 1997

    designed, modeled, rigged, and animated transforming head
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    Fish Lips

    "Artificial Intelligence" 2001

    Digital Model Supervisor; model by Howie Weed, designed by Fangorn
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    Fake Whales

    "Star Trek IV"

    these are 4 foot long radio controlled free swimming whales shot in the swimming pool at St. Vincent's Academy in August of 1996; I worked on creating these for about 9 months, and I puppeteered
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    Ramona

    "Singularity is Near"

    This was shot greenscreen on a turntable. I matched the camera move and added a moving CG background
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    Junk Fortress

    "Spiderwick Chronicles"

    concept art for unused level of lousy game
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    Fishy Office

    "The Singularity is Near"

    greenscreen people; digital environment
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    Hidden Canyon

     

    unfinished idea for a matte painting
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    Homeland Security

    "The Singularity is Near"

    entirely digital set created in Maya with Mental Ray; comped in shake
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    Good 'O

    "My Peoples"

    I was CG Supervisor for this unfinished Disney film; this is a CG model, not a painting
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    Ellie

    "The Singularity is Near"

    I created the model design and rig; animated by Miguel Fuertes; comped by me in Shake
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    Ramona's Island

    "Singularity is Near"

    based upon a Magritte painting; real sky color corrected and retimed; CG water from Maya
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    Lungs

    "Innerspace"1987

    these are actually scallions stuck into mud that I then made a latex casting of
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    Day for Night

    "The Prankster" 2009

    day for night matte painting; added sunset sky, sign for building, twinkle lights, etc
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    Angel and Spinster

    "My Peoples"

    I was CG Supervisor for this unfinished Disney film; these are CG models, not a painting
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    Specialist

    "Artificial Intelligence"

    I worked with U.K. based artist Chris "Fangorn" Baker to develop this model; I was tasked with figuring out how to represent the volumetric interior of the Robot, as if you could see thru the skin to the circuits and wires inside
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    Dobby

    "Harry Potter 2" 2002

    This was my last film for ILM as a Digital Supervisor. I was very aware at the time of the coming CG challenge from Weta with Gollum, so we worked very hard to make Dobby as realistic as possible. He was the first ILM character to use sub-surface scattering. Frank Gravatt did a fantastic job on the modelling.
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    Jack Devil

    "Witches of Eastwick"

    this was a 4 foot puppet with Jack Nicholson's face projected onto it
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    Cube Ship

    "Artificial Intelligence"

    I designed this ship to break apart into component pieces in an interesting manner
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    de Lorean Girl

    Music 4 Animals video

    shot greenscreen, but had to be entirely rotoed anyway;
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    More Lips

    "Artificial Intelligence"